AJ is going to beat Usyk

Its possible. One good shot can change the fight.
But highly unlikely.

It's probably on par with Whyte KTFO Tyson Fury.

 

Why wait

I'll laugh now

 

" With the Tyson Fury mindset he can get the job done"

" all being said AJ could easily blow his load then fall over like he always does "

This is my thinking too. AJ's gotta roll the dice.

Even if he does, I'm picking Usyk but happy to eat a bowl of humble crumble if AJ pulls it off.

 

No one believes you in here. You've made a Usyk win inevitable. The drama is over.

 

He's going to give it another try and train even harder than he did before. Thats admirable. Most guys would have walked away.
I think he should have walked away because Usyk can and will be better as well. His only chance of winning is if Usyk is worse and thats not going to happen.

Eddie Hearn should have pulled a few strings and got Joyce or somebody else to trigger a mandatory clause , put a few extra miles on Usyk's clock. The Lennox Lewis strategy

 

Let’s go AJ!

 

He doesnt have a chance. If usyk would have risked it, he could have ended the first fight by ko. He generally plays it rather safe, you could see that against glowacki and gassiev too, he could have switched to 6th gear bit choose not to cause he saw it as unnecessary danger.
If aj tries to brawl him, he will find himself in an even darker plays given the immense stamina usyk posses.

 

This.

AJ isn't going to box Usyk's ears off - he did a more respectable job of trying than I'd have predicted if you told me he was going in there to box... But he's not going to win that way, if that wasn't clear before it is now - he needs to be willing to trade if necessary, but he's got to take the fight to Usyk and hope his power will get him somewhere.

 

What on earth is that even supposed to mean?!

I've always wondered by the way, is your username supposed to be MiniQ as in small Q, or MinIQ as in minimum intelligence?

 

I favour Usyk but I'm not counting AJ out at all.
I think a lot of people have recency bias from the last fight.
It should be noted that Joshua grossly underperformed and most on here not including myself thought Joshua was too big and powerfull and would walk through Usyk.
Yes Usyk can improve and change his approach but if were being objective Joshua has the bigger margin of improvement availible because he performed so poorly in the first fight.
Of course there will be positives and negatives depending on Joshua's strategy.
If he goes for a KO this is high risk but potentially more definative if he can pull it off. the negative is we know Joshua can gas and we know Usyk is a precise puncher and therefore may clip Joshua coming in.
The other strategy is to pace himself for 12 ensuring that his output is a lot more consistant than the first fight.
I've said it in several threads already if Usyk wins 7-5 Joshua WILL get the nod and will go on to unify.
I thought Usyk would win but get robbed in the first fight but actually in hindsight it's better to do the robbery on the rematch for several different reasons. the main one being able to go and unify which like Usyk has been his objective all along.

 

TBF, plenty of people said Ruiz was something special and just to good (too high energy, too fast hands) and Joshua might as well not bother with that rematch either - we all know how that turned out.

Now sure, Usyk isn't going to balloon and turn up looking like an absolute mess, but if AJ comes back and wins that rematch it wouldn't be the first time he'd been completely written off and proven people wrong.

Perhaps he's simply convinced himself that he's 1 from 1 in rematches and he's confident he'll do it again.

Either way, the first was a great fight and I'm looking forward to seeing what's different second time around, even if I'm expecting the result to be the same.